Skopje, 22 July 2025 (MIA) — As part of Skopje Summer festival, Italian pianist Cinzia Bartoli will perform a concert of works by Frédéric Chopin and Maurice Ravel, including his formidable three-movement suite "Gaspard de la nuit” (1908), at the Museum of Macedonian Struggle at 8:30 pm.

The concert program consists of Chopin's Mazurka Op. 17 No. 4 in A minor; Mazurka Op. 67 No. 4 in A minor; Fantaisie-Impromptu Op. 66; and the demanding Scherzo Op. 31 No. 2 in B♭ minor.

Bartoli will also play Ravel's technically challenging "Jeux d'eau" as well as the three movements of "Gaspard de la nuit — Trois poèmes pour piano d'après Aloysius Bertrand," famous for their difficulty: "Ondine," "Le Gibet" and "Scarbo."

Cinzia Bartoli (born in Savona, Italy) graduated with honors from the Paganini Conservatory of Genoa. She received the Diplome Superieur d'enseignement from the École normale de musique de Paris-Alfred Cortot in Paris, under Jean Micault. She also studied under Paul Badura-Skoda and Stefan Askenase at the Ottorino Respighi Musical Academy in Assisi. From 1986 to 1990, Bartoli studied under Ilonka Deckers in Milan. During her studies, she won numerous national and international piano competitions.

Bartoli has performed at prestigious concert venues in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Greece, Albania, Spain, Portugal, Norway, USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Japan, Australia, China and South Korea. She has also performed many times as soloist on piano and accompanist of opera singers at concerts recorded by the Italian national broadcaster RAI.

As a piano teacher, she has given masterclasses around the world. She has also been a judge in several international piano competitions.

Described as "an extraordinary interpreter" of Ravel, Bartoli gave a concert of his complete piano works at Théâtre de l'Île-Saint-Louis Paul Rey in Paris in 2019. Her album "Piano Works of Maurice Ravel" was released under the Centaur label in 2023. mr/